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...American political front, at least one presidential hopeful has focused on the Games. The Rev. Jesse Jackson, in the full flight of his still undeclared candidacy, last week told Kim Kyung-Won, South Korea's Ambassador to Washington, that he might urge a U.S. boycott of the Games. Jackson demanded that the political situation in Seoul be stabilized and that the regime improve its human-rights record. But a ranking White House official last week declared that the Reagan Administration would never threaten a boycott like the one the U.S. organized against Moscow in 1980 after the Soviet invasion...
...less than predictable Kim Il Sung, 75, to launch a military adventure that could draw the U.S. into another Asian war. Though U.S. leverage in South Korea is limited, its stake in the country's future is considerable. Writing in the New York Times last November, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan Edwin O. Reischauer and Edward J. Baker, a Harvard Asian-affairs specialist, declared, "Next to the Middle East, South Korea is probably the part of the world where American interests and world peace are most threatened...
...major parties by mounting a superior campaign. Party strategists focused their effort on the personable Kinnock and his wife Glenys. Cannily avoiding the largely Tory, London-based press, the couple spent long periods campaigning in the provinces, far from London. "The style was vintage Jimmy Carter," noted a Western ambassador in London. Thatcher, by contrast, made the usual one-day campaign forays from the capital. "The Kinnocks were packaged with professionalism and flair," conceded a Conservative politician, "while most of the time we seemed to lack both." Thatcher occasionally stumbled, as when she was asked why she had taken...
...suggested, portions of a Blackford Oakes novel. Buckley's boatmates, too, seemed eager not to appear that they were getting away from it all. In addition to sharing sailing duties with a paid crew, the author and three of his companions stood literary watch. Evan Galbraith, a former ambassador to France, was drafting his memoirs. Richard Clurman, once chief of correspondents for TIME, was attending to an ambitious work about the press, and Buckley's son Christopher copyread his humorous novel The White House Mess...
...Honolulu to Kavieng, on the northwest tip of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago. Sealestial covered more than 3,500 nautical miles; ports of call included inhospitable Johnston Atoll, believed to be the site of a U.S. poison-gas depot, where even such minimum security risks as a former ambassador and the editor of the National Review were denied an overnight parking space...